Post-mortem photos show irregular wound holes in victim's clothing

Cody Alan Legebokoff is shown in a B.C. RCMP handout photo. The B.C. man is currently on trial in an alleged serial killer case.
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Loren Leslie was killed near Vanderhoof in Nov. 2010. Cody Legebokoff is charged with her first-degree murder.TBA
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Cynthia Maas was reported missing by her friends on Sept. 23, 2010. Her family was also concerned because they had not heard from her over the course of several weeks. Cynthia was not found until Oct. 9, 2010, when her body was discovered in LC Gunn Park, also in a remote area of Prince George. Cody Legebokoff has been charged with her first-degree murder.TBA
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Jill Stuchenko was a mother from Prince George. She was also a talented singer. She was reported missing to police on Oct. 22, 2009. Her body was found on Oct. 26, 2009 in a gravel pit off Otway Road in the outskirts of Prince George. Cody Alan Legebokoff has been charged with first-degree murder.TBA
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UNDATED -- Undated handout photo of Natasha Montgomery. BC RCMP announced October 17, 2011 three first degree murder charges against Cody Alan Legebokoff in connection with her death in October 2010. Legebokoff is currently awaiting trial in the November 2010 homicide of 15 year old Loren Donn Leslie from Fraser Lake, BC. HANDOUT PHOTO: RCMP.

The grisly task of going through photos of two of the alleged victims of Cody Alan Legebokoff continued Tuesday for the jury hearing the trial for the accused serial killer.

Now retired-RCMP Sgt. Norman Striker presented photos he took of Cynthia Frances Maas during her autopsy and of Jill Stacey Stuchenko as she was found following her death and in a subsequent autopsy.

Maas's body was discovered Oct. 8, 2010 in L.C. Gunn Park while Stuchenko's was found near a dormant gravel pit at Otway Road and Foothills Boulevard nearly a year earlier, on Oct. 26, 2009. Both were 35 years old at the time they were found.

Photos of Maas's clothing as taken at the autopsy a few days after she was found showed a series of irregular holes on the three layers of clothing she was wearing. Moreover, three holes on the upper right shoulder of her fleece jacket lined up with those on her dress shirt and undershirt.

Photos of the scene where Stuchenko was found showed her body in a shallow depression and covered in gravel that a forensic anthropologist carefully brushed away, Striker said.

Legebokoff, now 24, appeared attentive but without expression as he looked on.

Videos of those two scenes and of the scene where 15-year-old Loren Donn Leslie's body was found near another gravel pit, located off Highway 27 between Fort St. James and Vanderhoof, will be presented this afternoon.

Legebokoff is also accused of murdering Natasha Lynn Montgomery, 23, who went missing in September 2010 following her release from Prince George Regional Correctional Centre. Her body has never been found.

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